Karakás

Name: Karakás: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Karakás is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

TRTürkiye≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
CYCyprus≈1 in 5.2Kfew records
HRCroatia1 in 12K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Karakás itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
: 3 (measured from records)
Record sources: 129 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

KarakásLatin

КаракашCyrillic

ΚαρακαςGreek

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Karakaş

Locally spelled Karakas in DE Germany, FR France, AT Austria and 1 more, Karakaş in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus and Karakaš in HR Croatia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. brus. Kopax, Kapakoj, rus., ukr, Kapaxa (M. bupsina, 1969, c. 183), rus. Kapak (CAMC II 762).

Cited for this meaning 1

Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Karakás counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Karakás is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
TR Türkiye	#123	≈83,000 est.	≈1 in 1K	—	Karakaş	91
DE Germany	—	≈1,700 est.	≈1 in 48K	—	Karakas	85
BR Brazil	—	1,476as Caracas	1 in 143K	1.5K	—	—
FR France	—	≈540 est.	≈1 in 128K	70	Karakas	124
AT Austria	—	≈370 est.	≈1 in 25K	—	Karakas	27
HU Hungary	—	≈360 est.	≈1 in 27K	—	Karakas	42
HR Croatia	—	343	1 in 12K	343	Karakaš	28
CY Cyprus	#360	≈260 est.	≈1 in 5.2K	—	Karakaş	7

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

Karakás is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Slovak surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, Czechia, Slovakia
Languages: Slovak, Czech
Also written Karakaş, Karakas, Karakaš

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Karakás under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Karakás have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named Karakás in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karakaş.
How common is the name Karakás?: In Croatia, the national register counted 343 people named Karakás in 2021, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Karakás compared with other names?: In Türkiye, Karakás is the 123rd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Karakás” — the 123rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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